Issues & Trends Analysis

We bring a sophisticated, diverse set of lenses to understanding your business and the relevant issues and opportunities. Our research, network and Faculty give us relationships and insight to key opinion-leaders and influencers around the world. We put meaningful stakeholder engagement at the heart of constructive issue management.

What We Do
We help to scope and prioritise corporate responsibility issues for your business, or explore a particular issue. In each instance, our approach is along the following lines:

Undertake research and interviews within your business or organisation to understand perceptions of relevant issue(s), their current management and likely escalation (best and worse case), and the quality of related stakeholder engagement.

Contextualise your approach by providing relevant case studies of similar issues and how they may have been managed by other companies or organisations..

Map and prioritise key stakeholders for the issue and likely dynamics with regard to its evolution. Ideally, we undertake interviews to understand perceptions accurately and appetite for engagement.

The above inputs help us clearly appraise the strengths and weaknesses of your current approach, and work with you to develop a strategy for effective management and engagement on the issue.

Further Information
Our reports provide insight into stakeholder expectations of business, and into particular issues and how they can best be managed:

The Changing Landscape of Liability looks at how new types of legal and moral liability will present growing challenges to business.

Our Global Reporters series, most recently Risk & Opportunity, looks at how the reporting on management of non-financial and wider sustainability issues can be increasingly proactive

Gearing Up looks at the role that public policy and governments can play when it comes to framing corporate responsibility solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges.

The 21st Century NGO looks at the changing dynamic of NGOs, which can be extremely influential in determining how an issue evolves.

Values For Money looks at the future of SRI funds.

Much of our client work revolves around enabling more effective issue management through better engagement